Appeal No. 2003-1605
Application No. 08/982,934
path which corresponds to an activated hyperlink in a received
hypertext document and which includes a reference start and a
reference destination.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:
1. An information reference frequency counting apparatus in an
interactive hypertext document reference system, comprising:
a server managing hypertext documents, each hypertext document
including at least one hyperlink;
a client processor requesting a hypertext document, through a
requesting program, and receiving from said server the requested
hypertext document; and
a count program counting and accumulating a reference total
for a reference path based on the reference path including a
reference start and a reference destination, concerned with an
activated hyperlink of the received hypertext document, provided by
an informing program at the client processor.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Cole et al. (Cole) 5,933,827 Aug. 03, 1999
(filed Sep. 25, 1996)
Claims 1-37, all of the appealed claims, stand finally
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Cole.
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